Psalms 41:7

“All that hate me whisper together against me, etc.] That is, they privately conspired against him; (see <402215>Matthew 22:15 <431153>John 11:53) (<402603>Matthew 26:3,4); against me do they devise my hurt; not only to take away his name and credit, but his life.”

“So of others, all act alike.”

“All that hate me whisper together against me - They talk the matter over where they suppose that no one can hear; they endeavonr to collect and arrange all that can be said against me; they place all that they can say or think as individuals, all that they have separately known or suspected, into “common stock,” and make use of it against me. There is a conspiracy against me - a purpose to do me all the evil that they can. This shows that, in the apprehension of the sufferer, the one who came to see for himself Psalms 41:6 came as one of a company - as one deputed or delegated to find some new occasion for a charge against him, and that he had not to suffer under the single malignity of one,…”

“whisper: Pro 16:28, Pro 26:20 \*marg. Rom 1:29; Co2 12:20 against: Psa 31:13, Psa 56:5, Psa 56:6; Mat 22:15, Mat 26:3, Mat 26:4 my hurt: Heb. evil to me Psalms 41:8”

“(Heb.: 41:8-10) Continuation of the description of the conduct of the enemies and of the false friend. התלחשׁ, as in Sa2 12:19, to whisper to one another, or to whisper among themselves; the Hithpa. sometimes (cf. Gen 42:1) has a reciprocal meaning like the Niphal. The intelligence brought out by hypocritical visitors of the invalid concerning his critical condition is spread from mouth to mouth by all who wish him ill as satisfactory news; and in fact in whispers, because at that time caution was still necessary. עלי stands twice in a prominent position in the sense of contra me. רעה לּי belong together: they maliciously invent what will be the very worst for him (going beyond what is…”